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Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century (E. Cardeña, J. Palmer, & D. Marcusson-Clavertz, Eds.), McFarland
2015
Explicit Anomalous Cognition: A Review of the Best Evidence in Ganzfeld, Forced-choice, Remote Viewing and Dream Studies
📄 Original study ↗ Baptista, Johann., Derakhshani, Max., Tressoldi, Patrizio. • 2015 Modern Era • overview
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This is the ultimate lab-based ESP report card, pulling together evidence from four ways scientists test psychic perception: ganzfeld (a sensory-deprivation setup), forced-choice guessing, remote viewing (describing a hidden distant target), and dream telepathy. The headline? People who seem to have a knack for this absolutely crush it — ganzfeld hit rates jump from 27% to over 40%, and experienced remote viewers need remarkably few trials to show a real effect. The review also prescribes best practices for future work: pre-register studies, run proper power analyses, and use modern meta-analytic methods. Both a scoreboard and a how-to guide for next-generation ESP research.
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📋 Cite this paper
APA
Baptista, Johann., Derakhshani, Max., Tressoldi, Patrizio. (2015). Explicit Anomalous Cognition: A Review of the Best Evidence in Ganzfeld, Forced-choice, Remote Viewing and Dream Studies. Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century (E. Cardeña, J. Palmer, & D. Marcusson-Clavertz, Eds.), McFarland.
BibTeX
@article{baptista_2015_explicit_anomalous_cognition,
title = {Explicit Anomalous Cognition: A Review of the Best Evidence in Ganzfeld, Forced-choice, Remote Viewing and Dream Studies},
author = {Baptista, Johann. and Derakhshani, Max. and Tressoldi, Patrizio.},
year = {2015},
journal = {Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century (E. Cardeña, J. Palmer, & D. Marcusson-Clavertz, Eds.), McFarland},
}